TBB Best of Web: Dr. Death, El Chapo and Heroin Crisis, Legal Nomads, Face Transplant, Man Owns The Moon

Every Sunday we I bring you the TBB Best of Web links. Just five stories that blew my mind. No clickbait, no shocking videos. Here we go: a scary story about surgeon Dr. Death, the sad history of El Chapo and heroin crisis, ten years of Legal Nomads, a fascinating story about a face transplant and how a man came to own the moon.

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Every Sunday I pick the best reads that blew my mind in the week that just went by. It can be…anything!

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Dr. Death

Wow, what a story! I feel so bad for all the patients this guy killed or maimed. Amazing how someone like this can go on. And how tough it is to stop him due to the laws in the present health care system. And if it was not for one patient who did not agree to a settlement this guy could have done this to many more! What makes people go off? Are they born this way? I mean, the signs were there…Just mind blowing!

Plano surgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies. The shocking story of a madman with a scalpel.

El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Crisis

I am all in for legalization of marijuana but after reading this article I am not so sure! But is it too late?

If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week, take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels. How did they respond to a major loss in revenue? Like any company, they created an irresistible new product and flooded the market. The scariest part: this might not have happened with El Chapo in charge.

I am afraid I must admit this is how this is going to end, sad!

We’re as addicted to the War on Drugs as we are to the drugs themselves. Our justice system is a machine fueled by hundreds of thousands of arrests, trials, and imprisonments. As long as the U. S. and Europe continue to buy billions of dollars’ worth of drugs a year while at the same time spending billions to intercept them, we will create an endless succession of Chapos and Menchos.

An entire economy is based on drug prohibition and punishment, something to the tune of $50 billion a year, more than double the estimated $22 billion we spend on heroin.

That’s a lot of money. There will inevitably be another Guzmán, but he’ll be a distraction, too. Don’t follow the monkey. Follow the money.

10 Years of Legal Nomads:

Favourite Posts from A Decade of Nomadic Living

I am so glad to see a blogger I respect so much gaining her health back! And hard to believe it has been ten years already, wow!

Some bloggers have true talent. Others have a talent of pumping their readers every single freaking day travel rewards credit card for the sales commissions. Support the first kind.

This is a goldmine of beautiful writing, enjoy!

At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.

I warn you, this article has some REALLY difficult photos to look at. As in transplanted faces and stuff! How one stupid spare of the moment decision can change so many lives. Incredible medical advances, I hope this lady makes it…

Many of the Best of Web articles I post every Sunday are long…you have been warned. I refuse to do moronic clickbait! Heavy on educating every Sunday #missionstatement

The Man Who Owns the Moon

This dude…Talk about hacking god or what?

For more than 35 years, Dennis Hope has been selling land on the Moon. Hope registered a claim for the Moon in 1980 and, since the US government & the UN didn’t object, he figures he owns it (along with the other planets and moons in the solar system).

An acre-sized plot of the Moon is currently available for $24.99 and Hope says he has sold over a billion acres of his celestial properties to more than 6 million people, including to such moonsteaders as George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Star Trek cast members.

$24.99 an acre! Sold over a billion acres. That’s it, I am outtahere!

And I leave you with this…

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